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This paper presents a droop-free distributed secondary control for DC microgrids with admissible voltage profile guarantees. The control objectives are achieved through an average voltage regulator, voltage variance regulator, and a relaxed current sharing regulator. Regulations of the global average voltage to the microgrid rated voltage is ensured by the average voltage regulator and regulations of the global voltage variance to a predetermined reference is enabled by the voltage variance regulator. In order to achieve the objectives of voltage regulation, the current sharing from one of the DGs which may be owned by the microgrid community is relaxed. The global dynamic model of the DC microgrid with the proposed control is derived. Besides, steady-state analysis is performed to show that all objectives can be achieved. Finally, simulations on a 4-DG DC microgrid test system are performed to validate the efficacy of the proposed control.
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Unified Distributed Control of Grid-Forming and Grid-Feeding Converters in DC Microgrids with Average Voltage Regulation and Current Sharing
This paper proposes a unified distributed secondary control for the grid-forming (GFM) and grid-feeding (GFE) converters in DC microgrids. An optimization problem is formulated for the secondary control and the objective function considers regulating the global average of the GFM and GFE converter output voltages and proportional current sharing among all GFM and GFE converters. A unified distributed control is then designed to generate voltage and current references respectively for GFM and GFE converters based on the formulated optimization problem. The dynamic model of the DC microgrid under the proposed control is also developed, and steady-state analysis is performed to show that the proposed distributed control can achieve the control objectives in steady state. The performance of the proposed control is validated through real-time simulations in OPAL-RT on an 8-DG DC microgrid system.
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- PAR ID:
- 10318997
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia)
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTAsia49270.2021.9715610
